New Podcast: "The decision comes before the action...but we teach it the other way around"

This is a great chat with FA Coach Development Manager, Jack Walton. Jack has a wealth of experience in coaching and working with coaches so he has seen and experienced many of the challenges that most coaches face...

In this episode we discuss:

• How Jack challenged me when he was listening to one of my workshops

• How he helps coaches to develop coaching philosophy

• His clubs approach to developing players

• His thoughts on Nurture v Nature

• Why decision making is so difficult to develop in players

and loads more....

Enjoy

"It's only when I got to level 5 that I discovered skill acquisition" - A conversation

Calvin Betton has the life that would be the envy of many. He travels Europe coaching and helping young tennis players to strive to break into the professional ranks. It's a tough life but somebody's got to do it...right? Not necessarily...

In this episode we get an inside picture of the life of a tennis coach working at the cliff edge of the talent space...the key transition zone from promising junior to top level adult. In the episode we cover...

• The big gap in coach education that meant that skill acquisition was only covered at level 5!

• The questions he asked a tennis legend about the advice he was giving to aspiring players to use drills to become better tennis players

• Why people don't understand what good coaching looks like

• How he creates intensity using 'pressure training'

• His innovative method of giving feedback called 'bandwidth feedback'

• His approach to 'challenge point theory' called 'training on the edge'

There is a wealth of insight in here that we were able to benefit from because of a rainstorm in Greece...a brainstorm in the rainstorm (ahem)!!

Enjoy

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Coaching, Competition, Caterpillars & Cats - A random conversation on youth sport with Nick Leve

A slight change of pace in this episode. I am joined by regular contributor, Nick Levett who unloads his brain with me on all manner of topics related to the youth port experience.

In this episode we cover:

• What is the point of coaching for kids? Is it actually doing them any good?

• Is adult risk aversion ruining play for children.

• Why formal competition for youngsters should be banned.

• Why adult conceptions of what should feature in a child's sport experience may be destroying their enjoyment and harming their chances of progression.

• Practical methods to enable children to develop skills through games using an approach called 'Playperation'

And so much more....

Hope you enjoy

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